The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, has been urgently rushed to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Owerri, where he is currently receiving medical care.
Comrade Benson Upah, the NLC’s Head of Information and Publicity, revealed that Ajaero’s right eye has been completely swollen shut.
Ajaero was apprehended by heavily armed operatives during the NLC’s protest in Imo state on Wednesday.
According to the latest update from Upah, “Contact has been made with Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero this evening around 15:30 hours at the Police Hospital in Owerri from where he was taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri where he is receiving medical attention.
Thoroughly brutalized, his right eye at the time of contact was completely shut. Ajaero was beaten up blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination where more brutalization took place, sometimes with bottles. His phones, money, and other personal effects were taken off him and have not been returned to him.”
